Nigel Brennan

And then Upmed just comes up to me behind with a, with a pistol and literally starts pistol whipping me onto the back of the head.

And so I just, you know, go into complete protective fetal position on the ground, being punched, kicked, screamed at.

Amanda's copying the same, um,

She obviously starts to get dragged out past me with this woman in black who's trying to hold on to her, trying to ensure that she's safe, I don't know.

So I'm trying to obviously protect myself, see what's happening with Amanda as she slowly gets dragged out of the building to the opposite side of the mosque and then out those doors and then I can no longer see her again.

and then five ten seconds later i just hear a single ak-47 gunshot that's just like she has just been executed

And it's just like, right today is the day I die.

This is, I think I have literally minutes left to live.

some of the growth some of the guys that had obviously taken amanda out then back in on top of me um i feel a couple of them grab my ankles and then i'm dragged basically to the main doors of the mosque so um right down through the mosque uh i get sort of pulled down some concrete stairs um

and very, very calm at that stage, which really surprised me and very clear thought of, I really wish I could have got a, I really wish I could get my hands on a mobile phone to be able to call mum and dad and just tell them how much I love them and how grateful I am for the life they've given me and how sorry I am for the trauma that I've caused them in the last five months.

I then feel myself being literally picked up above everyone's head in this sort of human stretcher carry as I'm then marched towards the, I guess, the compound gates of the courtyard.

And I was very aware that once I was outside that courtyard, I was sort of off holy land in a way.

And was like, okay, this is where I meet my end, obviously.

And was carried through those gates and obviously trying to look around.

I look over my left shoulder and see the two vehicles that we're always transported in.

Um, I can see Amanda in the backseat of the, uh, the Toyota Land Cruiser still trying to fight and get away.

Um, which was amazing.

Just the relief to know that she wasn't dead as I'm then sort of

marched over above people's heads.

The guy that had given me the gun is beside the vehicle being restrained by four people, like they're sitting on him trying to keep him on the ground.